Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, who already faces murder charges in the 2013 death of semipro football player Odin Lloyd, has now been indicted in a 2012 double slaying in Boston.

Hernandez was reportedly indicted by a Suffolk County Grand Jury as the shooter in the July 16, 2012 drive-by shooting that killed 29-year-old Daniel Abreu and 28-year-old Safiro Furtado and injured one other. At a Thursday morning briefing, Suffolk County district attorney Daniel Conley confirmed that Hernandez will be arraigned next week on first-degree murder chargers as the triggerman.

According to Conley, Hernandez, along with associate Alexander Bradley, encountered the victims at Cure Lounge, located in Boston's Theater District, but had not had any prior connection. Afterwards, Hernandez and Bradley allegedly followed them out of the club in an SUV.

Abreu, Furtado, the unnamed third victim and two other friends left the nightclub at 2 a.m. in Abreu's silver BMW. Shortly after, Hernandez and Bradley reportedly pulled up next to the vehicle at a stoplight, at which point Hernandez allegedly fired six rounds into the car with a .38-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver.

The driver, Abreu, and Furtado, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, were both killed. Two of the men sitting in the backseat escaped injury while the man sitting in the middle of the backseat, who has yet to be identified, was hit in the arm. Boston police commissioner Williams Evans referred to the incident as a "chance encounter."

Hernandez went on to start 10 games for the Patriots that season after the alleged shotting. He caught 51 passes for 483 yards and five touchdowns.

Details surrounding the shooting emerged shortly after Hernandez was arrested in connection with the death of Lloyd, with increasing amounts of evidence connecting the former Patriots tight end to the 2012 incident. According to a July 23, 2013 report from the Boston Globe, police believe that Lloyd may have had information about the Boston shootings.

Lloyd's body was found in an industrial park near Hernandez's North Attleboro home. Police believe that Hernandez, along with multiple accomplices, drove Lloyd to the park, where he allegedly shot and killed him.